4) Vitamin D intoxication can be iatrogenic, due to self medication or accidental with over fortification of milk or contamination of common dietary constituents like table sugar or cooking oil.

However, even in the absence of definitive evidence to establish the responsible metabolite, the wealth of animal studies and human anecdotal reports of vitamin D intoxication indicate that plasma 25(OH)[D.

In case reports involving older children, hypervitaminosis D has been associated with urinary tract infections and one case report linked vitamin D intoxication in a 4-month-old to nephrocalcinosis without renal impairment.

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